STILL LIFE

Another thought on some riffs in yesterday's post. 16th-17th Dutch and Flemish still life paintings tend to have dark or black backgrounds. Not all of them and certainly not all black, but that's what's in my muddled art history memory. I exaggerated the contrast in this image to meet my impression.               

Clayton

Still inching my way forward through The Lou's September and October events. I've gotten to the Clayton Art Fair, one of our two big outdoor exhibitions, held three weeks ago. Clayton is an inner suburb, seat of St. Louis County and, in a way, a second, sanitized downtown. The work on display there tends to be of a high level of craft and lacking in originality.

The best photos are in the details. Susan Stone was there, of course (she's always there, everywhere). The still life in the second picture was just sitting on a table in front of me. I made no attempt to arrange it but I suspect someone else did.